Child Care and Preschool: Cutting Costs for Working Families. Hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, United States Senate, One Hundred Seventeenth Congress, Second Session on Examining Child Care and Preschool, Focusing on Cutting Costs for Working Families (March 22, 2022). Senate Hearing 117-391

This hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions examines cutting childcare and preschool costs for working families. Opening statements were presented by: (1) Honorable Patty Murray chair, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and (2) Honorable Richard Burr, Ranking Member, a U.S. Senator from the State of North Carolina. The following witnesses presented statements: (1) Rhian Evans Allvin, chief Executive Officer, National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), Washington, DC; (2) Julie Kashen, Director, Women's Economic Justice, and Senior Fellow, Century Foundation, New York, New York; (3) Maria-Isabel Ballivian, Executive Director, ACCA Child Development Center, Annandale, Virginia; and (4) Ellen Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer, Georgia Child Care Association, Sandy Springs, Georgia. Letters in support of a robust investment in our Nation's childcare sector were submitted by Honorable Patty Murray.